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Alexander Downer criticises Schapelle Corby media campaign

Matt Peacock
Thu 20 Feb 2014, 3:26 PM AEDT

While chaotic scenes greeted convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby as she was granted parole after nearly a decade behind bars, former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer suggests the family's public campaign hindered rather than helped her.